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“The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind ...”
“HOUSE Grow high. The devil can't find you. Grow deep. Buddha can't find you. Build a house and live there. Gourd creepers will climb over it, their flowers dazzling at midnight. ”
“Hak cihna toldur kimseler Hakk bilmez / An sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.”
“Must be going crazy---my favorite poet latelyhas been me!”
“She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, tho...”
“LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE”
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.”
“Rory, I want to say that death is what you've always wanted. But that can't be the Truth. [This time] we can blame it on me. I'll be the packing mule, carry all the burden. & you, you can be a chil...”
“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.”
“Yo, mltiple, como en contradiccin”
“Streets paved with opal sadness,Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,And jazz.”
“The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.”
“You bear a sword and shield, remind meof her labor, her stoning gaze. What beastwill your blade free next? What call will you loosefrom another woman's throat?”
“A versifier passes through the sound”
“Love doesnt make you a poet”
“You ask my love completest,As strong next year as now,The devil take you, sweetest,Ere I make aught such vow.Life is a masque that changes,A fig for constancy!No love at all were better,Than love w...”
“Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and th...”
“Poverty of young men alone behind thestairways, who practicealchemy inside bottle caps, who knowthe altruism of a last syringe.”
“Let me begin again as a speckof dust caught in the night windssweeping out to sea. Let me beginthis time knowing the world issalt water and dark clouds, the worldis grinding and sighing all night, ...”
“Where are we going? Its not an issue of here or there. And if you ever feel you cant take another step, imagine how you might feel to arrive, if not wiser, a little more aware how to inhabit the mi...”
